<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Greetings Colleagues!</font></div><font color="#000000"><font style=""><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">A small team of digital stewardship practitioners, lawyers, and law students is working on an important legal project, and we need your help to learn more about software preservation and hacking/cracking/circumventing digital rights management (DRM). </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">Please read on, and take a moment to share any info you can using the Google Form linked to below.</b><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">As you may know, the Copyright Act includes a provision that prohibits circumvention of effective technological protection measures that control access to an in-copyright work. In other words, the law bars using hacks and other tools to defeat encryption or other technological ways of controlling access/use of copyrighted works, a category that includes software. </span><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Luckily, every three years the Copyright Office engages in a </span><a href="https://copyright.gov/1201/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">rule making process</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> to determine whether to grant temporary exemptions to that prohibition. The Office is looking for lawful activities that are unduly discouraged by the law. To support a request for an expanded software preservation exemption, we need information about the nature and extent of the difficulty that libraries and others face in preserving software that is protected by TPMs.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">As you may know, an exemption was granted in the last cycle for preservation of video games, and the ALA and ARL have requested a renewal of that exemption. We are seeking an expansion of that exemption to cover all software, but we need to learn more about what kinds of software may be affected.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you’d like to help, </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">please visit this Google Form and share information about software preservation challenges posed by the legal prohibition on tampering with TPMs</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/h1s1NdjEahY9Ckgm1" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://goo.gl/forms/<wbr>h1s1NdjEahY9Ckgm1</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span><br><br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks,</span><br><br><a href="https://static.lib.virginia.edu/directory/staff/bcb4y.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Brandon Butler</a></font><br style="font-size:12.8px"></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Director of Information Policy, University of Virginia Libraries</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#888888" face="wf_segoe-ui_normal, Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" size="2"><b>Jessica Meyerson</b></font><br><font color="#212121"><span style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"></span></font></span><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Research Program Officer</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px">Educopia Institute</span></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px"><a href="http://educopia.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://educopia.org</span></font></a></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><font size="1" color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.79px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Working from Austin, TX</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="mailto:katherine@educopia.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:12.79px"><span name="searchHitInReadingPane">jessica</span>@educopia.org</span></font></a> | <font size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:12.79px">512-864-4575</span></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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